Gearshon Gorofsky

Gearshon Gorofsky was a Russian Jewish immigrant to Dodge City, Kansas during the 1870s.

Biography
Gearshon Gorofsky was born in the Russian Empire to a Jewish family, the son of Moshe and Zisha Gorofsky and the brother of Laibel and Semel Gorofsky. In 1876, the family emigrated to the United States to avoid Russian pogroms, settling in Dodge City, Kansas. Semel was killed in a hazing incident, and Gearshon disagreed with his family's traditional response to the incident; while his father decided not to pursue vengeance against his son's killers in accordance with the Torah's teachings, Gearshon sought to buy a gun and take justice into his own hands. He attempted to beat up Rouse, Homer, and Calvin Ruxton after discovering that they were his brother's killers, but he was instead beaten. He later bought a shotgun and ran away from home, attempting to shoot the brothers dead. However, he wasted his shotgun shells by firing them from a distance, and he was taken back to his home by his brother's killers, who attempted to force his family to leave town at gunpoint. However, his father, emboldened by his wife's scolding, decided to stand up to the men, telling them to turn themselves in; he promised to back their story that Semel's death was an accident. Moshe then ensured that Gearshon would "do what he must", which was returning to living a peaceful life with his family.